I have had my Palm Pre a few months now and find more things to do with it all the time – like right now I’m starting this draft in Evernote while waiting for a client to show up.

With all it can do, it’s a new platform, and they can’t have it all right out of the box. Below is a few things that are on my personal wish list.

Continue reading →

I’ve been using WordPress for my site for just shy of two years now… and lots of sites in order to blatently generate renewed interest in older content post “year ago” type posts… and since I’ve been too busy to come up with something original lately (cept for a few things over at my formerfatdudes.com site), I figured I’ld jump on this bandwagon. But, I won’t be doing this weekly, likely towards the beginning of each month I’ll go back and look at what I did last year.

Continue reading →

As I continue to re-build my system after a fresh install of Ubinutu 8.10 yesterday, I’ll also continue to document it here. I don’t plan on doing this again in six months, but least I have a record to help myself out (or others) if I do… and will also help in setting up other machines I’m working on I suppose.

The next couple programs I added all can be pulled from the Add/Remove Applications set up. Just click Applications, then click Add/Remove… I changed the Show option to All Open Source applications right off the bat.

First up, FileZilla. Hands down the best all around FTP Client for the money. If you don’t believe me, it was picked at the High Five Winner by Lifehacker readers. It’s multi-flavored as well, and also has a portable version which, like KeePass, I keep in a Dropbox folder so I don’t have to install it on both my laptop and work computers. I just need to find a way for my desktop here to read the same file that keeps track of my server list. For now, I just manually copy the data file once in awhile so I have the same list no mater what computer I’m on.

Continue reading →

Ok, I am a couple days late, but I upgraded to Ubuntu 8.10, Inrepid Ibex today. Actually, I did one spare computer with the Edubuntu add-ons that is eventually going to my niece and nephew, added it to my Acer laptop using WUBI so I can use Ubuntu or Windows, and then did a fresh install on my Acer desktop. Been a busy day.

Since I did a fresh install, that means there’s a LOT of stuff I have to redo. The reason I chose to do a fresh install is that I have two hard drives in this computer, a 300GB and a 500GB. The 500GB I haven’t really used for anything. The 300GB had partitions from both version 8.04 and 7.10. So I figure I would put 8.10 on the 500GB drive, and once I’ve copied all my old stuff over that I need to keep, I’ll repartition the 300GB back in to one drive. And yes, I did back all the stuff in my Home folder up first.

In fact, if you want to do a basic backup of a folder, rsync is pretty much the best way to go. I may write up something basic about it at some point, but the point of this posting is some of the steps I’m going through as I put stuff back on this desktop computer.

Continue reading →

My thumbdrive has been made obsolete.

Ok yea, I have a number of computers. Three desktops floating around the house right now, two laptops (one going to my sister rather shortly), and then there’s my desktop at work. The home network is great, when I’m at home. But does me no good when I’m at work or out and about with the laptop. So for that, I have been using a 4gig thumbdrive. And it is a pain in the rear when I forget it at work and need it at home or vice-versa.

Well, I no longer have to worry about that, cause now I just Dropbox.

Continue reading →